We don't need a society of vandals

When demonstrations triggered by the death of George Floyd spread to Philadelphia, vandals defaced a statue outside City Hall of an old white man. They spray-painted the words “colonizer” and “murderer” on it. But the statue was of Matthias Baldwin, a 19th-century businessman and abolitionist.

Baldwin was a vocal opponent of slavery decades before the Civil War. He founded a school for poor black children and paid the teachers’ salaries for years. He also advocated voting rights for black people well before the enactment of the 15th Amendment. None of this spared his likeness from today’s Jacobins.

Nor was the Baldwin episode an isolated case. Boston protesters painted graffiti all over the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial, including the phrases “Black Lives Matter,” “No Justice, No Peace,” and “Police are Pigs.” Yet that memorial honored the men who comprised the first blacks to fight in uniform for the Union Army during the Civil War. Their heroism was captured in the 1989 film “Glory,” for which Denzel Washington won an Oscar. In Philadelphia, too, vandals defaced the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution, with the graffiti “Committed Genocide.” Overseas, Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square was defaced and then covered for its protection by a large metal box. The British government cannot be confident that the nation can celebrate the leader who, more than any other, stood up to fascism.

The debate over symbols of the past is legitimate, but what we have are indiscriminate attacks on all elements of our shared history. Today’s vandals are not really attacking evil; they’re attacking the past. It’s one thing to argue against honoring the Confederacy either because it fought against the United States or because it fought to preserve slavery or both. It’s quite another to destroy things simply because they date back to a time you cannot remember and cannot be bothered to find out about. The first is a reasonable argument; the second is nothing but malignant violence.

Debates over removing monuments should happen in public, overseen by elected officials. When the debate is given over to the mob, you get the sort of general vandalism that we see now. Taking down statues of Confederates is different from targeting those of America’s founders, such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who owned slaves but are celebrated for other achievements in the nation’s founding and for the advancement of liberty.

Wanton attacks on symbols of the past are partially rooted in ignorance. Given how much schools and colleges focus on racism in America’s history, it’s no surprise that the mob assumes any old statue it sees must be of somebody irredeemable. The trend also fits the concept seen in other revolutions from the French Revolution to the Khmer Rouge of trying to erase the past and starting over from Year Zero. Today’s street vandals call the police “pigs,” but who are those displaying porcine ignorance, and who behave most like the pigs of “Animal Farm,” making no distinction between innocence and guilt?

In a civilized debate, people can discuss the nuances of who we choose to honor and who, because fellow citizens want to honor them, we should accept in the interests of reconciliation and national unity. Such a debate would recognize that history is messy and that some people who achieved great things were also deeply flawed. It would also provide an opportunity for all sides to feel heard and make any decisions more sustainable. Lawlessness short-circuits this process, which is part of the extremists’ purpose.

REPRINTED FROM THE COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE

WHERE IS THE ACCOUNTABILITY

It was reported at the school board meeting that the teachers in Dorchester County, Maryland reported 43 assaults on teachers by the students during two months ending in October. This did not include the ones that were downgraded to disruptive behavior. It was also reported that some students also would not drink water during the school day because they were scared to go to the bathroom. Does terror rain in our schools? This makes one ask how many more assaults have taken place in the Dorchester school system the following two months until this report in the Banner. There has been an ongoing problem in the Dorchester school system with the students and their behavior for over two years now. We can read about them in past issues of the paper. When I was in one of the high schools over two years ago, I saw with my own eyes the disrespect and manners of some of the students. The solution by the ones in charge of the school board and the ones in power want more police in the schools, more programs to stop the violence and misbehavior. All this will never stop what is going on in our schools. I have said time and time again the correction must start in the home and not in the schools. The correction of the children must start at home and let the schools educate our kids and in that order.  How kids act out in school is for the most part how they act out at home and if they get away with it in the home it is just brought over into the schools. When most of us did wrong in school we had something waiting for us when we got home and it was not what we wanted. If parents of these kids will not teach them right from wrong and hold their kids accountable for their deeds in school then the parents must be held accountable and it will soon stop. Let the parents pay the price through the court systems. This has gone on for a couple or more years now and it is getting worse. If something soon does not take place to put a stop to this then some teacher or student is really going to be seriously hurt or worse. There is no room in our schools for violent behavior or disrespect. Police walking the halls, new programs, and other ideas have been put into place over the past few years and for the most part with no success. That success will come when parents of these unruly kids take charge in their homes and do the right thing. The lack of discipline in the home shows in the schools, on the street, and in other public places. There are kids in the school system who want to learn, are well disciplined, and are wanting to learn but are hampered by these kids that are out of control. There are some parents now who worry about the safety of the kids until they get home from school and there are other parents who could care less. Some parents send their kids to school because they want them to receive a good education and there are other parents who send their kids to school because it is the law. Until the parents stand up in the home and make their kids do right our schools will never be no better. What will it take for people to see this? Parents do your job and make not only our schools a better place but also the community as a whole. 

Why did God let that happen?

Every time there is a shooting in some public place ,whether it be in a shopping center, church, Walmart or our schools, we can always hear somewhere in the crowd or gathering “Why does God let that happen?”

So why does God let that happen? When you have lived a long life, as I have, and have seen the many changes take place in our country, it sure is a no-brainer to understand what happened to God. For decades and then some ,we have been telling God to get out of our schools, our government and our lives. So he has done just that, and now we can see clearly what we have. How can we expect God to give us his blessings and his protection if we tell him to leave us alone?

We did not want prayer or Bible reading in school anymore, and then we listen to a guy named Dr. Spock, who said, “We should not spank our kids because we might damage their self-esteem." We believed him, and now look at what is happening. We have kids that do not know right from wrong, they have no discipline, some have no conscience at all. A conscience that would stop them from killing other kids in school.

Some of you will not get this at all and others may call me a whack job, or a Bible thumper, but I have to tell you like it is: We reap what we sow. We cannot turn our backs on God and then wonder why our country is going to hell in a handbasket. It is so funny how we will believe most newspapers but never God’s word. It is strange how some newspapers will not print an article like this, and when they do print the article, how most people when they see the word “God” they will pass over the article because they want no part of it.

If we want this country to return to its former glory, we must stop the suppression in our schools and public places of God’s word. The trouble is we are worried more about what people think than what God thinks. Before we can make America great again, we need to call on the one who can deliver us out of the deep trouble that we are in.

Communist Goals for America

Albert S. Herlong Jr. who was a Democrat Congressman from the state of Flordia warned of the socialist-communist agenda infiltrating the American school systems. On January 10, 1963, he read into the Congressional Record, the list of Communist goals for America and I agree with every word he has said. He said this over 56 years ago when there was not all the chaos in our country with the things listed here by the congressman. This was a Democrat speaking not a Republican or an independent. But an honest American who spoke the truth and how true is every word he spoke. The Congressman warned of the socialist-communist agenda that was then starting to infiltrate our schools. Please go to the source listed at the end of this article and read it for your self.  Here is what he said; 

• Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of separation of church and state. 
• Control schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and the current Communist propaganda.
• Soften the curriculum. Get control of the teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks. Control student newspapers.
•  Infiltrate churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion (i.e. "social justice, liberation theology")
• Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch"
• Discredit American culture.
• Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and divorce.
• Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

Source  (Vol 109, 88th Congress, 1st Session, Appendix, pp. A34-A35)

Since the reading of this in Congress in 1963, our country has done just about 180-degree turn in just about everything that is important to the American people. Our schools are in such bad shape we have to have police officers patrolling the halls, for the most part, to keep kids in line. But the politically correct term is to call them resource officers. We can no longer say anything about Adam and Eve in school but now the new norm is Adam and Steve which is being taught as a normal, natural, and healthy way of life. Some of the children do not know if they are a boy or girl so we have created a number 3 on drivers licenses and birth certificates to help them out. We have liberal professors in our colleges teaching socialism along with their brand of liberalism. We have babies in the womb being murdered and our government upholds the practice while punishing people that kill certain species of wildlife. Where is this country headed to? We have cities called sanctuary cities that defy the federal government and give illegals a place to live and all they need to survive while the homeless and veterans live on the streets in tents. There is so much hate between the elected officials' nothing will ever get done to better this country. This nation is headed down the broad road of destruction with increasing speed. 

EVIL DOES NOT OBEY LAWS

The United States will never create enough laws to control the evil of killing another human being because evil and evil people do not now and will never obey laws or any rules imposed upon them by the government. What makes anyone think evil people will obey government laws when they will not obey God's law- Thou shall not murder. We will always have mass killings, murders, and the breaking of the law because we live in an evil world.  All the laws on the books or laws that will be on the books will not stop evil. When a person has his mindset on an evil purpose he will carry out that evil purpose one way or the other with whatever is at hand to do his or her evil deed. We are already hearing from the liberals and the far left after this latest mass shooting in Texas wanting more gun control laws and for what? The only thing more gun laws will do is hamper the honest decent man, who by the way, respects and abides by the gun control laws. We already have more gun control laws on the books in this country that do absolutely nothing, but yet we want more laws or better yet to take away the guns of everybody, including honest law-abiding citizens. When all the guns are gone and we become a people who depend totally 100% on the government we will then be servants of the government instead of the government being a servant of the people. Some people will not get that. After the firearms are all gone or confiscated by the government what will be the next on the list for the future mass murder to use to commit his evil act? Without naming several I will let the reader think for himself. Do not let the government and some anti-gun groups make you think or believe it is the gun that is the cause of our problems. It is evil in the hearts of degenerate people that cause the problems. People who could care less about any law or what is morally right.

 This country's policymakers, journalists, and the general public look to psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, and related disciplines as sources of certainty in the face of the often-incomprehensible terror and loss that mass shootings inevitably produce. This is especially the case in the current political moment when relationships between shootings and mental illness often appear to be the only points upon which otherwise divergent voices in the contentious national gun debate agree. Our country and even the world is going down a broad road to destruction. After all the gun laws, the psychology, and many other programs that have been tried and have failed we need to turn to the ONE who will heal this land and put us back on the right course. The bottom law is this: When we obey God's laws the evils of this country will go away. 

To fix problems in schools, start at home

As I read the local newspapers about all the proposed ideas and promises for correcting the behavior problem in the school system not one of them, in my opinion, made any sense. The school system can make new rules, institute new programs, add more police to patrol the halls and do whatever they think is best like they always do, but they always miss the mark when it comes to making students behave in school. I am not saying they don't do their best but most people if they would speak out on the subject, would tell you the correction and the discipline must start in the home. The school system can make all the new programs they want but it will do little or nothing to change the behavior of some students.

This is because the very root of the problem is in the home and how children are raised. I do not have any college degrees behind my name so what I say will not matter that much, but I speak the truth. When kids are not made to mind in the home how are they going to be made to mind in the school? At one time the unruly student received his just reward from the principal and when that student got home they received it again. This does not happen anymore because the parent (I say parent because in most cases the home only has one parent.) never knows where their kids are or what they are doing. The parents will defend their kids most of the time leaving the teacher as the bad guy. This ought not to be. If children are not corrected and disciplined in the home how can they be corrected in the schools?

Some people in the federal government have said for years that it takes a village to raise your kids. So the village has raised our kids for years now and look at what we have. We have unruly kids using the schools for a social club or a hangout. I had the privilege of being in a Dorchester County school some time ago and I was so shocked at how some of the students were acting, the language they used, and their conduct. What you see out of the students in school is for the most part what you will see in their homes. Schools are not a social club for kids to meet every day. It is a place of learning, education, and to get them ready for a world that gets tougher every day.

I will always believe it is the family unit that will make or break this country and the same with the school system. Students must have a good foundation and fertile soil for them to be grounded in to excel or even want to learn in school. This means spiritual guidance, parent discipline, family functions, and even time together as a family whenever possible, getting involved with your child's homework and school functions.  To correct the problems in our schools we must start in the home.

America’s Sad State of Affairs

We have allowed the very people who want to destroy this country To move here by leaps and bounds while supporting them with our tax dollars and even elect three of them to Congress where they have access to classified documents. Our enemies are here and in the gate. No wall is needed here because they are already here and demanding their form of government. I will never understand how people can leave their country because of persecution while waving the flags of their country as they come. We must learn their language because they do not want to or do they have to learn ours. We must accept their God. The very things that we have seen in the middle east are coming here and for the most part are already here.

We have a problem on our southern borders that needs to go away. I for one am not against legal immigration. I want people to come to this country and learn our ways, speak our language and be proud Americans. This is how our country was founded. It was not founded by people sneaking over the borders, illegally and demanding everything for free which is, for the most part, what is happening. No matter what some people say, not all the people crossing our borders are legit. Some of these people bring with them a way of life that is not acceptable and should not be tolerated, such as drugs, bad criminal records, let alone the lawlessness that they unleash when they come here. There are many cases in our court system which can back that up. This country cannot sustain the people crossing our borders or the burden it will cause on the citizens in this country. We need the wall.

The Pope, most Tv actors and members of Congress, who are against the wall have walls around their residence to keep people out. Check it out. For them the walls are good but for you and me (The American People), the walls are not needed. The people in Congress that are against the wall are doing it because all these people will vote for them and their socialist (communist agenda) or else they are against it because it is a Trump Promise and they hate Trump. I do not like everything Trump says or does but he is right on this one. We must build the wall or we will have no country as we know it left for our kids and grandkids.

We have people who have come across our borders illegally (not citizens of this country) and are allowed to vote, get a drivers license, tax refunds (Never figured that one out), food stamps, money for housing, and everything else, and it is all for the vote or the cheap labour. This country can not sustain this type of actions from the illegals or the government that allows it.

Evil has overtaken this country and it is growing by leaps and bounds. We have murdered millions of babies in the wombs of their mother over the past decades but now we are murdering them in the mother’s womb up until the day they are born. How evil this is. We have laws to protect dangered species of animals, but it is okay to kill a baby in the womb. The government is saying the baby is not alive or a person until they are born and breath. All through the Bible God tells us otherwise. If this is the case, as the government says, why is Plan Parenthood harvesting body parts and selling them? What is next? Will the government want to call the old folks and special needs people a burden and get rid of them? Do not laugh because if this country last it will happen. There is a darkness coming over this land.

We have the evil of homosexuals, lesbianism, transgenders, and the like being promoted in our land when we know it is wrong. Our kids are being taught in school that it is just another lifestyle. (Our schools are not what they use to be). Most schools and higher places of learning have a liberal agenda.) The Holy Scriptures tell us that. And if you do not want to read them just common sense will tell you none of this is right. God created Male and female, (Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve) I guess soon we will be told that round pegs will fit into square holes.

We have an evil that has come over this land and we need not look at the politicians to solve the problem because they are part of the problem. They need to go. We must clean the swamp. But the real problem is we have, for the most part, are spineless preachers who will not stand up in the pulpit and preach what saith the Lord. They are more worried about money and the numbers of their congregations. When we have a preacher of a church with 40,000 members that will not say homosexuality is a sin on national TV the church is in trouble big time.

We were tolerant, now they are not

As I sat last night and thought about the changes to our country during my lifetime of 72 years, I have realized this, the USA has almost done a 180-degree turn in her principles, her values, and our way of life. The values and principles that made this country great. Now I also realize this country on its present course will be reaping the winds of destruction. 

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a few dissatisfied and discontented students chose not to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag and not to bow their heads during the moment of silence. The rest of us didn't like it much, but we tolerated and put up with it. When you give an inch the devil will take a mile.

Their numbers grew. They started burning flags. The flag of this nation that men died defending. We didn't like it, but we tolerated it. They made fun of our faith in God. The God who blessed our forefathers as they built this country according to His word. We didn't like it, but we tolerated it.

Now if we wear a cross, go to church, or honor God in any way to show where our faith lies, they don't tolerate us. If we stand to say the Pledge of Allegiance, they don't tolerate us. If we stand and bow our heads to pray, they don't tolerate us. If we raise our flags and display them, they don't tolerate us, because you see, tolerance, in this country, is only one-sided ... and those who tolerate become the enemies of those who do not.

America's Real Men

Take a little trip to Valley Forge in January. Hold a musket ball in your fingers and imagine it piercing your flesh and breaking a bone or two. There won't be a doctor or trainer to assist you until after the battle, so just wait your turn. Take your cleats and socks off to get a real experience.

Then, take a knee on the beach in Normandy where man after American man stormed the beach, even as the one in front of him was shot to pieces, the very sea stained with American blood. The only blockers most had were the
dead bodies in front of them, riddled with bullets from enemy fire.

Take a knee in the sweat-soaked jungles of Vietnam. From Khe Sanh to Saigon anywhere will do. Americans died in all those jungles. There was no playbook that told them what was next, but they knew what flag they represented. When they came home, they were protested as well, and spit on
for reasons only cowards know.

Take another knee in the blood-drenched sands of Fallujah in 110-degree heat. Wear your Kevlar helmet and battle dress. Your number won't be printed on it unless your number is up! You'll need to stay hydrated but there won't be anyone to squirt Gatorade into your mouth. You're on your own.

There are a lot of places to take a knee where Americans have given their lives all over the world. When you use the banner under which they fought as a source for your displeasure, you dishonour the memories of those who
bled for the very freedoms you have. That's what the red stripes mean. It represents the blood of those who spilled a sea of it defending your liberty.

While you're on your knee, pray for those that came before you, not on a manicured lawn striped and printed with numbers to announce every inch of the ground taken, but on nameless hills and bloodied beaches and sweltering forests and bitter cold mountains, every inch marked by an American life lost serving that flag you protest.

No cheerleaders, no announcers, no coaches, no fans, just American men and women, delivering the real fight against those who chose to harm us, blazing a path so you would have the right to "take a knee." You haven't any inkling of what it took to get you where you are, but your "protest" is
duly noted. Not only is it disgraceful to a nation of real heroes, it serves the purpose of pointing to your ingratitude for those who chose to defend you under that banner that will still wave long after your jersey is retired.

If you really feel the need to take a knee, come with me to church on Sunday and we'll both kneel before Almighty God. We'll thank Him for preserving this country for as long as He has We'll beg forgiveness for our ingratitude for all He has provided us. We'll appeal to Him for understanding and wisdom. We'll pray for liberty and justice for all because
He is the one who provides those things. But there will be no
protest. There will only be gratitude for His provision and a plea for His continued grace and mercy on the land of the free and the home of the brave. It goes like this, GOD BLESS AMERICA!

By Ted Nugent

AMERICA -The Reckoning

Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more (Judges 10:13)

I have really been thinking about our country a lot lately and how this once beautiful land filled with God's Blessings has turned her back on Him and on just about everything that is right and good. This reminds me of Israel in Biblical days and how she turned her back on God. We all know what happened to Israel for turning her back on God. Will America be any different? No! The effects of all the sins past and present in this country are mounting up and all America will feel the effects. This country is about to be called to account for the sins and trespasses committed by the government and her people. We must not forget the church and her failure to cry out against the sin and lift up a standard against it.

Most people in this country cannot decern right from wrong. They think good is bad and bad is good. In America, it is good to promote homosexuals, to allow them to become members of our churches and in some cases stand behind the pulpit as a church leader. It is against the law to cry out against it because it is a hate crime to do so. Most churches remain silent and because of this the Holy Spirit has left the church and you see no one healed or set free from their sins. It is sad when there are megachurches with thousands attending and all they hear is a motivational speaker and go home the same way they came. LOST AND UNDONE WITHOUT GOD OR HIS SON!

To take God's beautiful rainbow that He has given us as a promise and use it to promote sin is blasphemy against God and His Word. The Government tells the people that transgenders, crossdressers, homosexuals, lesbians, and the like of such are just another lifestyle.  This is even taught in our public schools. It is no longer Adam and Eve, but now it is Adam and Steve when the Bible clearly tells us God made them male and female. What do we want to be "politically correct or "Biblically correct"?

The killing of unborn babies in their mother's womb (better known as Abortion)  in this country has destroyed millions of unborn babies during the last decades. It started out first the killing of the unborn babies had to be done in the first few weeks of pregnancy but now it is done in many cases when the baby is full term and ready to be born. We are bombarded on TV with people wanting laws to stop the killing of animals and laws passed to protect them which is all fine and good. The question is where are the people's priorities? The aborting of a baby is called a choice, the women's right. The question is what about the rights of the unborn baby. Did anyone stop to think how many Billy Grahams, Billy Sundays, Bert Clendennens, George Washington, Abe Lincolns and the list goes on that have been aborted.

America, just like Israel was in The Bible days, Has been warned over and over and over, yet does not regard or heed the warnings and will eventually be paid the price of sin and losing God’s protecting hand. This country can look for a severe judgment coming very soon because, like Israel, we have been warned, yet we continue to go downhill to the broad road that leads to and invites destruction.

Working Toward The Right Solution

In Sundays Star Democrat newspaper Mr. Pifer wrote a very interesting article that for the most part I totally disagree with. It sounded like it came straight from the Democrat handbook. The rhetoric is always the same, no matter if it comes from Democrats or Republicans. Each party has their ideas about The NRA, The Guns, and violence. The Democrats, for the most part, want guns gone. They would have you believe it is the gun that causes the evil when people are needlessly shot, Every time we turn around we have more gun laws passed and for what? Some of the largest cities in our country have not only the strictest gun laws but also the highest gun-related deaths. So why are we passing more gun laws? The Republicans would have you to believe it is an American right to own and bear arms. They are correct in saying that because it is true, but it does not give anyone the right to just go out on the street and kill our kids in school and people at their workplace. People like this do not need guns. They do not even need to be on the street. If we wait on the people in THE SWAMP better known as Washington to solve the gun problem it will never get solved and it will only grow worse. All we will ever hear is the same talk from both parties.

The solution to this problem starts in the home at an early age. The home, as I have said many times before, is the building blocks of this country. We need to put fathers back in the homes. The preachers and pastors must take a stand in their churches for what is right. The value system of this country must be grounded, as it once was, in the Word of God. As a people, we are heading down the broad road that is leading to the destruction of this country. We cannot want peace and happiness but do everything that goes against it.

We cannot have gun control or gun safety on our streets when in just about every home there are violent video games being played. Arguments between the kids about who killed the most people in the games. We are teaching our kids to kill starting in the home by letting them play these games. We have kids who will not obey their parents and do what they want to do. When there is no respect in the home how can there be respect for other people? We did not get to this place overnight and we will not stop this violence overnight. But we must start by not only following the laws of this great country but we must take heed and follow God’s Laws

Does it Take A Village?

I’m sorry but when I hear the phrase “It takes a village” I have to really stop and think hard about what is being said. Does it really take a village to raise your children to do right, to not bully, to respect their peers? My thoughts on this subject are, and a lot of people agree with me, is this: when we have the right family structure in the home our kids will not do a lot of these things they are doing now. The problem is we have had the village and our government raising our children for some time and where has that taken us. We always want to create new programs. Put forth new ideas, when the answer is already given to us. For the most part, there is no family structure in this country. No fathers to guide the kids the right way. When there are family structure and guidance in the home we had very few of these problems. It is the family unit that makes or breaks our kids. Now we have homes with no fathers, no guidance, no structure and the outcome of this is shootings in school, bullying, the lack of proper dress, and disrespect for the school teachers, and the list goes on. Lastly, I read nothing about spiritual guidance, something many do not want to talk about. There is a saying “The family that prays together stays together.” How true that is. I was raised in a small village in Caroline County called Harmony and there were many good people who lived there, who I respected and looked up to, but they did not raise me, my parents did. The village did not raise the kids, the parents did. The village had the boy scouts, Church functions for kids and the family, softball teams, and the like, but the parents raised and disciplined their children. It was the structure and the building blocks of the families that made Harmony a great village. Until we have structure, discipline, spiritual values, and most of all love in the family home we will continue to have the types of problems we see today. Not the government or the village, nor psychology, are needed to raise our kids. It has never worked and never will work. From the very beginning of time, it was the parents (the family unit) who raised the kids, not a village. 

America's Failing Schools

Parents who have kids in the school system need to ask some serious questions about their local school systems. Are their kids safe, are they truly being educated, and then there is the bullying issue in our school system? Is it safe for our kids to use the bathroom in public school, or even to walk the halls, or eat lunch in the cafeteria?  Apparently, the schools have not been safe for a number of years? If they were the schools would have no need for police officers to be stationed in every school, something that was never heard of years ago.

 The fact is our schools are in just that bad of shape. I am so glad that all my kids are out of school and all my grandkids are being homeschooled. The leaders in our schools look for answers to these questions and sad to say they may have a high IQ in their leadership abilities, but they will never be able to solve these problems. The problem started in the home. If you have no family structure in the home how can you have it in the schools?

 The government and the school system itself has taken from the teachers the ability and authority to discipline unruly kids. Some years ago if you did not dress or wear your clothes properly you were sent home. Now kids come to school with pants down to almost their knees and they wear what they want, say what they want to, and could care less. Schools are for learning and they are not a social club as some of the kids think.

 We do have kids in the school systems that want to learn, they want a good education, and they want to make something out of their lives. But they are trying to learn in an environment that should not be allowed or tolerated. Children need every chance they can get to have a good education before they go out into this world. Out of these schools come the next generation of America's leaders.

 This cannot happen by police officers stationed in the schools and students being assaulted in the bathrooms by gangs. A child must be able to feel safe and secure in their surroundings to excel in their learning. Before kids learn in school they must be taught at home the moral and religious values that made this country what it is. A lot of these kids have no home life, no family structure, and no guidance whatsoever. So how can we expect them to be any better in school?  When children disrespect and are unruly to their parents, in the home, or their parents just don't care, how can we expect them to be any different in school?

Kent Island High School Assault

I was so perplexed after reading the article on April 18, 2018 edition of The Star Democrat about the incident at the Stevensville High School entitled Assault at Kent Island High under investigation. In the article Dr. Andrea Kane said that the boys who did this will receive the "appropriate consequences" However in the paper she also stated that" the mission of the juvenile justice system in Maryland is: "guidance, treatment, and rehabilitation". Where does the punishment come in? She dd not mention that. The school system did not even notify the police. Parents of some of the school kids did and that was two or three days later. One day the students are in the school bathroom doing this terrible thing and the next day they will be on the streets like good little citizens protesting second amendment rights while taking Tide-Pod breaks. If the sheriff's department did not get involved most likely the whole incident would soon be forgotten.  The bullying problem in our school system goes far beyond what is reported as we can see by this incident and how it was handled by the school system. No wonder home schooling is growing by leaps and bounds by concerned parents, when I say “concerned parents, I’m talking about parents who are really concerned about their kids, and their kid’s education. The students who really want to learn are being hampered.  "School for a lot of kids is a social meeting place not a place of learning." That is not my statement but a statement made by a substitute teacher at a public meeting where people were addressing the problem which happened in a high school in Cambridge, Maryland a few weeks ago. There was a small riot in the cafeteria and the police were called. These two schools are not 40 miles apart. These kinds of things did not happen years ago in our schools so what has happened? Let me answer that question with another question. Did these things happen when God was allowed in schools? When there was discipline allowed in the schools? No I do not think so. When God was forced out and the Federal Government took over we can see what happen. If you have kids or grandkids going to public schools you need to be in much prayer for them That God will protect them because the school systems will not.


 

When is it UnAmerican

Our country was founded on principles that all men are created equal. Our founding fathers were visionaries and sought to assure all citizens the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. However, today we have groups that will deny others the right to life, deny others their liberty, and only think they themselves should be able to pursue happiness. Friends, so much of what I see in our country today crushes these values America was built upon.
When a senator can shed tears on the senate floor because there is a policy to vet refugees from terror sponsored countries but remains dry eyed when millions of innocent babies are murdered in the womb—that is un-American.
When our homeless go hungry while illegal aliens can come into this country and receive food stamps, welfare and shelter—that is Un-American
When our elderly must choose between eating or buying their medications while abortions and transgender surgeries are paid for with tax payer money—that is Un-American.
When our troops go without proper equipment while celebrities and athletes protest our country and national anthem—that is un-American.
When our veterans go without benefits that were promised but billions of dollars are given to countries that hate us—that is Un-American.
When Christian companies are forced to compromise their faith and values by serving same sex weddings while other businesses can say, “if you support traditional marriage, don’t shop here.”—that is Un-American.
When radical groups like BLM and anti fa can riot, burn cities and kill or injure people but citizens are prosecuted and persecuted for speaking out against them—that is Un-American.
When a black criminal disobeys law enforcement and is shot by police and there is a public outcry while police officers are shot everyday for doing their jobs and media is silent—that is Un-American.
When the media takes it upon itself to slant the news and tell us what to think instead of reporting the news and trusting us to decide for ourselves what to think—that is Un-American.
When liberal head explodes at the use of a word in describing a third world country while cities in this country resemble these third world countries and nothing is being done to improve the lives of citizens in these cities— that is Un-American.
When a political party would rather protect 8,000 illegal aliens than protect the citizens of this country and even go as far to threaten a government shut-down and deprive the elderly and military of their money— that is Un-American.
It appears that some of our leaders are more concerned about themselves and the special interest groups that has bought them  than the citizens that elected them and that is not only Un-American but unacceptable to the the citizens of this country that are counting on the leadership.
Friends, I have been told that, as a Christian, I should not be political. I am not a political person but what I see goes beyond politics. It is now about our survival as a country and the fabric of our way of life. I once read “All it takes for evil to spread is for good men to do nothing.” I am only trying to do my small part to stop the spread of evil.
As always you are free to disagree but I am free to express my opinion. May God bless you all. . Just saying

Credit to @Doretta Mills For the post

AMERICA - The Two Sided Country

There is a question we all need to think about. It makes no difference if you are a republican, democrat, conservative, or liberal. The question is so important and it is for the American people to think on. “WHAT HAS HAPPEN TO AMERICA?” Is this the same America we all grew up in or are we missing something. Are we a two-sided country? If we look at how things are done in this country that is exactly what we are.

If a white man does not like a black man the white man is a racist. If a black man does not like a white man it is their first amendment right. If an American citizen tells a lie to congress they will be arrested for committing a crime. If a senator lies to the citizen it is called politics. The federal government using the taxpayers’ money spends untold amounts of money on prisons and prisoners, but not a cent on their victims. We can kill a helpless unborn child in the mother’s womb, but people will protest the execution of a mass murder or the killing of a wild animal in some other country. We can use the fetus of an unborn child but you had better not use that of an animal because it would be called animal cruelty.  In the public schools, our children are taught the homosexual is okay, but you had better not mention God’s name in the process or bring a Bible to school.

We do not burn books like some countries did some decades ago. We just re-write history to our liking and make new books. We got rid of the communist and the socialist threat in this country. That was easy. We now call them progressives. Something else I do not understand. For decades American soldiers have been protecting the South Korean border while we cannot protect our own border with Mexico from drugs, illegal immigrants, and gangs that will kill you in a heartbeat.

If you protested against Barrack Hassan Obama’s policies you were a traitor to this country, but if a person burns an American Flag or a statue of Donald Trump it is their 1^st amendment right. The TV, movie theatres, and the internet is loaded with pornography and all sort of filth for our kids to see but you had better not put a nativity scene, a cross, or anything to do with Jesus Christ or Christmas in any public place.

The government takes money from the people who work and gives it to people who do not work. Now in some cases that is the thing to do because some people need help. If a person is disabled we should help them. Sad to say over half the people could work but will not work in a pie shop testing pies. We call riots protest when in fact it is breaking the law. The burning of buildings and destroying property is not protesting. It is breaking the law. The only thing not stolen in a shoe store, during riots, is the work boots. Our country has become a country of handouts for the “WHAT YOU GOING TO GIVE ME” crowd.

All Americans will say they support our constitution but the fact is half the people will only support it when it supports whatever their agenda is and as far as freedom of speech goes you had better be politically correct.  Our kids are being dumbed down by Ritalin when a large percentage does not need Ritalin, only correction and discipline. Kids are started on video games at an early age and the older they become the more violet the games become. America’s children are the future of this country. Parents need to bring them up in the way they should go.  America’s downfall will not come from Russia, China, or some other country it will come from within.

Teachers Were Always Armed

I know that statement will turn some heads, but the fact is it is true. How do I know this to be true? Let me start with my history teacher. She was armed with a large book about three inches thick and would not fail to bend you over a chair and administer ones due rewards.  Then there was my third grade teacher who was armed with a twelve inch ruler that reached out and touched someone when they needed it.  Then there was my six grade teacher who would raise her arm and point her finger and you would not see recess for a while let alone daylight. Then there was the dreaded paddle at the principals’ office that brought with it all the respect that was needed in that high office. If a child was unruly on the bus he was put off and got home the best way he could. And when we got home from school we knew we were going to get our just rewards once again.

Am I trying to make teachers look bad, not at all? The teachers who are mentioned above were the most kind, considerate, loving people who focused on the task at hand and that was giving kids the education they needed. The difference is there was order in the classroom, and in the halls. Just like in today’s world the teachers back then were not given the credit they deserved, but there is a big difference between the two different time periods in this country’s school history.

The ills of our school system in this country can be blamed on no one but the federal government and its system of how we are to raise our kids. The government has usurped the school’s authority to give our kids a good education. A student must have the right environment to receive a good education and discipline must be a part of that environment.  This is not happening in our school system.

The government, as I have said in the past, wants you to believe it takes a village to raise a child. This was one of Hilary Clinton’s famous sayings. While there may be some small merit to that statement we must realize it is the family unit and how it is structured is the foundation for raising our kids. When a child is raised correctly in the home that will show when they are out in public and in the school system which they attend. They will dress properly, conduct their self properly, and be a blessing to their family in their home and in the school which they attend.

Teachers have an impossible task today of trying to teach most kids because the kids do not see the school as a place of learning but a place to gather and socialize. For the most part respect has gone out the door. The standards for our schools and for our homes must be raised.

The problems in our schools are blamed on guns, teachers, bus drivers, and many other things when the real problem is the structure of the family unit. How we see kids behave in school, for the most part, is how they behave at home.  This is the root of the problem.

Let us arm our teachers, bus drivers, and other school personal with the authority they need to maintain a good environment in our schools. If we do this there will be no need of arming our teachers with hand guns and police patrolling the halls.